Deh Luran Archaeological Landscape: A Reassessment

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Deh Luran archaeological landscape was home to some of the earliest prehistoric investigations and ethnoarchaeological observations in the broader region of the Zagros Mountains and Mesopotamian plains during the 1960s. Early archaeological surveys and excavations resulted in significant discoveries of settlement spanning from approximately 8th millennium B.C. onwards and revealed some of the earliest evidence of domestication, agricultural development, and development of water management techniques. Nonetheless, for the past few decades, besides efforts of local archaeologists to excavate certain prehistoric sites and reevaluate chronological sequences, no other comprehensive research has been conducted and this landscape has mostly remained neglected from the archaeological analysis. This presentation discusses initial stages of survey and application of various remote sensing and geospatial techniques to evaluate the past results, add to our archaeological knowledge of the region, in particular the later historical periods, and reconstruct long-term patterns of settlement and land-use practices. Applications of these techniques are not only enabling a reassessment and further completion of our archaeological knowledge of the region but are also raising new questions on cycles of sedentism and mobility, occupation expansion, and abandonments throughout its history.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• SAA 2021: General Sessions

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Abstract Id(s): 32609